Journal of pain and symptom management
-
Within weeks, COVID-19 has transformed our practice of palliative care and clinical medicine as we know it. Telemedicine has emerged as a critical technology to bring medical care to patients while attempting to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 among patients, families, and clinicians. ⋯ These quick, practical tips cover telemedicine setup, patient considerations, and clinician considerations. Next steps include ensuring equitable access to affordable telemedicine technology for vulnerable populations through creative solutions and financing, and dedicated attention to telemedicine evaluation and quality improvement.
-
J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2020
The Empathy Project: A Skills Development Game: Innovations in Empathy Development.
Empathy is increasingly described as a learnable skill and is included in professionalism requirements for health care providers, yet there are few effective tools for developing and practicing empathy skills. ⋯ This innovative game-based learning tool is of low cost and feasible to deploy. It could be easily incorporated into medical education curricula aimed at developing communication skills, especially the skill of responding to emotion with empathy. Future research is needed to assess the effects the innovation has on behavior as well as its impact on patient-centered outcomes.
-
J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2020
Erratum to Attitudes of the General Public, Cancer Patients, Family Caregivers, and Physicians Toward Advance Care Planning: A Nationwide Survey Before the Enforcement of the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decision-Making Act [Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 57 (2019) 774-782].